Dam in Chugoku Region

1873-Kawamoto Dam / Okayama Prefecture

Date of visit: 2/18/2015 (Wed) After a thorough tour of the Shin Naruha River Dam and a quick visit to the Tahara Dam, we came to the Kawamoto Dam, which is operated by Okayama Prefecture. Kawamoto Dam is a hollow gravity concrete dam that is used for flood control, power generation, and industrial water supply to the Mizushima Coastal Industrial Zone...

2024.03.22

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1880-Tabara Dam / Okayama Prefecture

Date of interview: 2/18/2015 (Wed.) The Shin Naruha River Dam's reservoir is used as an upper reservoir for pumped-storage power generation, and the Tahara Dam is located in the lower reservoir of the Shin Naruha River Dam. On this day, I visited the Shin Naruha River Dam with a group of friends and then moved on to another dam...

2023.10.22

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1879-Shinnarigawa River Dam / Okayama Prefecture

Interview Date: 2/18/2015 (Wed) The Shin Naruha River Dam is a gravity arch dam owned by the Chugoku Electric Power Co. and is responsible not only for supplying electricity to the rapidly developing postwar industrial area, but also for supplying water for industrial use. The Shin Naruha River Dam can be visited on weekdays with prior application, so fellow dam enthusiasts ...

2023.09.09

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1905-Chiya Dam / Okayama Pref.

Date of interview: 2/18/2015 (Wed.) On this day, we were invited to go see the Shin Naruha River Dam together, and we stopped by the Senya Dam on the way. It looks like a direct-controlled dam because of its gorgeous equipment, but it is a Okayama Prefecture-owned dam. The time was around 7:40 in the morning. It was a sleet...

2023.05.14

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1868-Yashiroguchi Dam

Date of the interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) This was the last dam tour of the day. After leaving the Yubara Dam, we headed south along the Asahikawa River, stopping at the Shaguchi Dam on the way to the Yubara IC. To the east of the Shaguchi Dam is an area called Yashiro, which, as the name implies, is a spiritual...

2022.12.03

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1869-Yubara Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) The Yubara Dam is the one we came from Onbara Dam via Ningyo-Toge (Ningyo Pass) in a largely Tottori roundabout way. This was the 10th dam on this day. This Yubara Dam is one of the dams that I have wanted to see many times. The Yubara Dam was built by Okayama Prefecture in 1948 as the Asahi...

2022.11.28

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1852-Onbara Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) From the Tomada Dam, we headed north along the Yoshii-gawa River and came to the Onbara Dam, which was the ninth dam we visited that day. As one would expect, there was a lot of snow on the ground when we arrived here. The Onba Dam is a buttress dam. This was the first time in my life that I visited a buttress dam and...

2022.11.06

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1909-Tomata Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wednesday) TomadaWe arrived at this Tomada Dam just a short distance from the Tomada Kurambe Dam. This was the eighth dam of the day. I had always wanted to visit the dam after seeing photos taken by others, but finally got to see it for the first time...

2022.10.29

Okayama Prefecture Dam

3327-Tomata Anbu Dam

Date: 12/10/2014 (Wed) I stopped by the Tomada Saddle Dam because I wanted to see one dam before the Tomada Dam, one of the main dams of the day. A saddle is a depression in a mountain ridge like a horse's saddle.

2022.10.08

Okayama Prefecture Dam

3491-Yadaniike Pond

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wednesday) The sixth unit of the day was Yatani Pond. As the name suggests, it is an earth dam and a reservoir. The map clearly shows that the Gokurakuji Pond, Ichinotani Pond, and this Yatani Pond are dams constructed in three different valleys. It is as if there are three...

2022.10.01

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1839-Ichinotaniike Pond

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wednesday) The fifth unit of the day was Ichinotani Pond. As the name suggests, it is a reservoir and an earth dam. This is the limit of my retouching because the difference between light and dark is too large. The downstream face of the embankment is usually clean...

2022.09.30

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1864-Gokurakuji Pond / Okayama Prefecture

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) The fourth unit of the day was Gokurakuji Pond. As the name suggests, there is a historic temple called Gokurakuji upstream of the reservoir, which was opened during the Wado period. View of the downstream face of the dike and the conduit from downstream It is possible to see the dike from downstream, and it is...

2022.09.25

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1889-Kagami Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed) We came to the main purpose of this day's dam tour, the Kanami Dam. Like the Tsugawa Dam and Kuroki Dam, this dam is also owned by Okayama Prefecture. From Kuroki Dam, we wandered around the stage of the horrific Tsuyama Incident, and took Prefectural Routes 75 and 68 to Kanami...

2022.09.23

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1876-Kurogi Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) After the Tsugawa Dam, we came to the Kuroki Dam. The name of the dam is not "Kuroki" but "Kurogi. Like the Tsugawa Dam, the Kuroki Dam is also an Okayama Prefecture-operated dam and is the same gravity-type concrete dam, but it is 29 years older than the Tsugawa Dam....

2022.09.13

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1907-Tsugawa Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) On this day, I decided to visit the dams in Okayama Prefecture to collect materials for the dam New Year greeting cards I make every year (even though it is already December), and Tsugawa Dam was the first dam I visited. Tsugawa Dam is a multi-purpose dam operated by Okayama Prefecture. The river flowing through Tsugawa Dam is called "Tsugawa...

2022.09.04

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1680-Myogadani Dam

Myogadani Dam is a gravity-type concrete dam over the Harumai River in the Chiyogawa River system, operated by the Tottori Prefectural Government and dedicated to power generation. It is a dam that evokes the atmosphere of the early Showa period, and even the nameplate, top railings, crest gate, and water intake tower are old and lovely. / Gravity concrete dam / 40m

2014.01.19

Dam in Tottori Prefecture

2931-dono dam/tonodamu

Tono Dam, located in Tottori Prefecture, is a multi-purpose rock-fill dam under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Its main features are a cascade-type flood discharge and an airlock-type continuous siphon intake system. We visited the dam site six hours after receiving information that the test discharge was about to start, but unfortunately it was a day too early and we were not allowed to enter the dam site.... / Rockfill dam / 75m

2014.01.07

Dam in Tottori Prefecture

1683-Momodani Dam

The Momoya Dam is a gravity concrete dam owned by Tottori Prefecture for flood control and unspecified water use. It is also the first dam in Japan to have a free overflow crest, and its large flood discharge protruding from the lake side is very impressive. Normally, this dam does not store much water, but in the event of a flood, this shape seems to have been adopted in order to efficiently channel the water. / Gravity concrete dam / 18m

2013.11.16

Dam in Tottori Prefecture

0000-ashizu dam

Ashizu Dam, located on the way to Mitaki Dam, a buttress dam, is a 12.7m high weir that dams up the reverse control basin of the Ashizu Power Plant of Chugoku Electric Power Co. We encountered three hydroelectric power plants on the way to this dam. The abundance of water in the river here must have made it attractive for use in hydroelectric power generation. / Gravity concrete dam / 12.7m

2013.09.21

Dam in Tottori Prefecture

1877-Kawakami Dam / Okayama Prefecture

Kawakami Dam (Okayama Prefecture) is a somewhat confusing dam with the same name as the dam under construction in Mie Prefecture (as of September 2013) and the dam in Yamaguchi Prefecture. However, this one is a very ordinary agricultural reservoir. The flood discharge is of the free overflow type typical of earth dams. Earth dams are agricultural treasures. / Earth dam / 24m

2013.09.19

Okayama Prefecture Dam